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This model paper provides the student with information on how to explore and write about the theme of denial in Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel The Martian Chronicles. The paper uses comparisons with other Bradbury novels, as well as descriptions of two of the chapters to illustrate that denial is an important -- although underwritten -- theme in this novel. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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more than half a century ago. Many themes have been linked to this book, including that of discovery, exploration and mans indifference to other men, cultures or societies. What hasnt
been focused much on, however, is the concept of denial in the book. Because very little has been focused on the theme of denial, it will be up to the
student to decide for him or herself what and where these issues take place. The purpose of this paper is to suggest to the student ways in which he/she can
focus on the concept of denial in The Martian Chronicles, even when other major themes are at work. Describing the storys background
In this, the first section of the paper, the student would focus specifically on the actual book, providing an overall summary of the stories, tone and language. The student
can use phraseology such as: Overall, Bradburys stories of Mars colonization, as well as its impact on both humans and Martians, tend top be extraordinarily nostalgic, as well as eerily
prophetic (Selby). Some actual background of the times during which the book, itself, was created, is also called for in this section.
As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was starting to become a concern (the atom bomb
had already been detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the horror of that had been revealed), and the anti-Communist hysteria of Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin was spreading over the
United States like a plague. The background is important here because it demonstrates, perhaps, why Bradbury wrote The Martian Chronicles - one reason, possibly, was because the concept of escape
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